# մամուխ
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* մամոխ (mamox)
* մամուխ (mamux) — Ararat, Arapgir, Ghazakh, Partizak, dialectological notation
* մամօխ (mamōx) — Akn, dialectological notation
* մամօ̈՛խ (mamö́x) — Aslanbeg, dialectological notation
* մա̈մօ̈խ (mämöx) — Svedia, dialectological notation
* մամոխ (mamox, “unripe”) — Mush, dialectological notation
* մամոխ (mamox, “vulva”) — Nor Nakhichevan, dialectological notation

### Etymology

From Old Armenian *մամուխ (*mamux), attested in 5th-century մամխ-ի (mamx-i, “sloe bush, blackthorn”), of unknown origin. Perhaps a reduplication of an unknown root *մուխ (*mux), which is sometimes identified with մուխ- (mux-, “to drive in, force into, plunge”). Compare Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “kind of plum-tree”); Lak бухъ (buq, “sloe”) and its cognate Dargwa муръух (murʾuχ, “sloe”); Proto-Abkhaz-Abaza *mǝɣǝ (“thorn”) found in the name of several thorny bushes, including Abaza дзхӏвы-мыгъ (dzḥʷə-məɣ, “sloe bush, blackthorn”) and reduplicated Ubykh maʁǝ́ʁ-mǝʒ́ǝ (“a kind of thorny bush”).
The sense “vulva” developed because of the fruit's appearance: compare ծիրան (ciran, “apricot; vulva”). That sense is also preserved in the Romani borrowing mamúx (“sloe; vagina”).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /mɑˈmuχ/, [mɑmúχ]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /mɑˈmuχ/, [mɑmúχ]
* Hyphenation: մա‧մուխ

### Noun

մամուխ • (mamux)
* sloe (fruit)
    Synonym: կոկան (kokan)
** 16–17th centuries, Eremia Mełrecʻi, Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] Մ.50:Մամուխ· փափուկ, կամ միրգ բոլոր եւ սեաւ։Mamux· pʻapʻuk, kam mirg bolor ew seaw.
* (dialectal, euphemistic) vulva
    Synonym: բունոց (bunocʻ)

#### Derived terms

* գայլմամուխ (gaylmamux)
* մամխասալորենի (mamxasaloreni)
* մամխենի (mamxeni)
* մամխիկ (mamxik)
* մամխկի (mamxki)
* մամխոպոպ (mamxopop) (possibly)
* մամխուտ (mamxut)
* Մամուխ (Mamux)
* մամուխիկ (mamuxik)

#### Related terms

* մամխի (mamxi)

#### Descendants

* → Northern Kurdish: mamik, mamok, mamix, mamox, mûmix, mamûxe (“Prunus insititia”), mamoxa siyayî (“Prunus spinosa”), momix (“Prunus insititia; Prunus domestica”)
* → Romani: mamux
* → Turkish: mamık, mamuḫ, mamuk, memük
* → Zazaki: mamuxe, momixe

### References

* ↑ Joseph, Brian (1992) “Armenian Reduplicated Nouns mamul, mamuṙ, and mamur”, in John A.C. Greppin, editor, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Armenian Linguistics: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 14–18, 1991, Delmar (NY): Caravan, pages 101, 112
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “մամուխ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 505a
* 1 2 Bläsing, Uwe (2019) “Die armenischen Pflanzennamen in Peter Simon Pallas’ Flora Rossica. Eine Studie zu Etymologie und sprachlicher Interaktion”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15) (in German), Leuven: Peeters, pages 7—17
* ↑ Xajdakov, S. M. (1973) Сравнительно-сопоставительный словарь дагестанских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Dagestan Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 54b
* ↑ Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mV̆G_Ă(-lV)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
* ↑ Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975), Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 207
* ↑ Kasımoğlu, Ahmet, Dirihî, Ehmedê (2013) Kadri Yıldırım, editor, Ferhenga Navên Nebatan a Kurdî [Dictionary of Kurdish Plant Names]‎, Istanbul: Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi, →ISBN, pages 524, 525, 555, 557
* ↑ Boretzky, Norbert (2012) Studien zum Wortschatz des Romani (in German), Faber, page 226
* ↑ Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 102
* ↑ Kocadag, Çeko (2010) “momix”, in Ferheng, Kirmanckî (Zazakî) - Kurmancî, Kurmancî - Kirmanckî (Zazakî), Berlin: Weşanên Komkar, →ISBN, page 833b

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մամուխ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 748a
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մամուխ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 244a
* Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “Մամխի”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1951, pages 413–414
* Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “մամուխ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 537b
* J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “մամուխ”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 944a
* Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “մամուխ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 246b
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 446
* Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “մամուխ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙgirkʻ i grabaṙē yašxarhabaṙn [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary from Old Armenian into New Armenian]‎ (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 250a
* Ananean, Mkrtičʻ (1769) “մամոխ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙgirkʻ yašxarhabaṙē i grabaṙn [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary from New Armenian into Old Armenian]‎ (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 398a
* Pallas, Peter Simon (1784) “Prunus spinosa”, in Flora Rossica (in Latin), volume I, part I, St. Petersburg: Academy Press, page 18, recorded as mamuch